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'r ...Thru U.S. government. Kennedy, in March, accepted the idea, named Yale man Sargent Shriver director of the project. The Pierson College newspaper broke the news that the Pierson courtyard was a likely candidate for the site of next year's bladderball game, following this year's unfortunate debacle fafter the Baumer had wonj on the Old Campus. Quincy Porter be- moaned the idea, thinking of the beautiful French doors lining the common room. Under Timothy Dwight's exceptional Chubb Fellow program, slightly left-wing New York Timer editor Herbert Matthews came to promote the implausible notion that Castro's government was not Communist. Hollins College ffor women, in Virginiaj an- nounced the appointment of Assistant Professor of History John Logan, jr. as the fifth president of that institution. Then Yale truly proved to be the mother of presidents fat least the educational varietyj, as Associate Professor of Economics and European economic historian John E. Sawyer was named the eleventh president of Williams College in Massa- chusetts. On the second Sunday evening in December, it began to snow and did not stop until the next after- noon. The result was over a foot of snow, 170, and 30 mph weather. New Haven, which perenially acts as if it had never experienced a snow storm before, was incapacitated all day Monday, but Mother Yale i U! r 1 1 , - Q- , ' 5 x ' ' fe , Z -.M , K f' 4... 5 b .Q X- . M Q a ii x ' ' 5.4 ' - ' . y - bv .J E 1, W , , J U ,l . 'I A, s f af' , ' .. at W, xg, v A ,. ' Q . -. . XL 6395 -mx ' , . . , , , 1 . 1.454 it '? ' 's f fwxgf' 5 . .a . . . 1 if 'fr W 'Q' af ,- z on Monday noon. kept right on going - even if her faculty found it impossible to get to class. Then, as Yale's Christmas present to its students, the Financial Aids Office announced that effective next year, Freshman bursary students would work ten hours a week for 35400, Sophomores and Juniors ten hours a week for 33450, and Seniors nine hours a week for 53450. This was the long-awaited an- nouncement of changes in the system, and the novel way in which the board renovated the bursary sys- tem was applauded by everyone. The day that most people left for vacation, it was snowing again. In the fog over Brooklyn, a United jet collided with a TWA Constellation, causing the nation's second-worst air disaster. Most parents and girl friends were more than glad to see their Yalies get home that day. But vacation was short, and tragedy was soon forgotten in cups of Christmas cheer and Yuletide parcels and parties. The day after vacation, the Yale Daily Neufr an- nounced in screaming banner headlines that the Yale College faculty had extended upper class cut rules to Freshmen and Sophomores, although many old-timers said they would go right on reporting absences. And they did. Yale tied Harvard for top honors by sending four students to study next year at Oxford on Rhodes Scholarships. The first Satur- day back, four freshmen Cno relation to the singersj fiying their way to Smith crash-landed in a Massa- Ji 'sa NK. - Q ,U at y I ' '-fig . 'P J N N Q 5 .Figs-s Y- I? 1 ,fr

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change for 5515. Most of them didn't even own vests. Quincy Porter, master of Pierson College and a Pulitzer Prize winner, was named Battell Profes- sor of the Theory of Music - one of the country's oldest music professorships. The A.P. - in their final football tally of the year - placed Navy in fourth position and Yale in fourteenth. The Lambert Trophy selection com- mittee Qincluding one-time Army coach Earl Blaikj disagreed, tied the two teams for best in the East, and declared them co-recipients of the coveted trophy. Yale kept reaping the football honors as A larger crowd an Sunday 7l207'l2jI1g . . . never-injured wonderboy Ben Balme made the A.P. All-American first team fthe first Yale player since Paul Walker in 19451 and later accepted a Na- tional Football League berth. President Griswold, declaring there was no place at Yale for an inter-disciplinary research office, an- nounced the dissolution of the nation's most famous investigator of dissolution: the 40-year old Center of Alcoholic Studies. People began circulating petitions for a Peace Corps plan - to enable qualified college graduates to work in underdeveloped areas at no pay for the

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